BSocSc Bachelor of Social Science Social History 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: The Second Wave of feminism in the United States (1960s–1980s) primarily focused on:
- Workplace equality, reproductive rights, and challenging gender roles (Correct answer)
- Women's right to vote
- Equal property rights for married women
- Access to public education for women
Correct answer: Workplace equality, reproductive rights, and challenging gender roles
Second-wave feminism expanded beyond suffrage to address systemic gender discrimination in employment, reproductive autonomy, sexual violence, and the social construction of femininity.
Question 2: The Stonewall Riots of 1969 are significant in U.S. social history because they:
- Sparked the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement (Correct answer)
- Marked the beginning of the anti-Vietnam War movement
- Led to the founding of the Black Panther Party
- Triggered the passage of the Civil Rights Act
Correct answer: Sparked the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement
The Stonewall Riots, in which patrons of a Greenwich Village bar resisted police raids, galvanized the LGBTQ+ community and led directly to the formation of gay rights organizations and annual Pride marches.
Question 3: What was the primary social consequence of the GI Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944)?
- Enabled millions of white veterans to access college education and suburban homeownership, expanding the middle class (Correct answer)
- Desegregated the U.S. military
- Created the federal highway system
- Established the Department of Veterans Affairs
Correct answer: Enabled millions of white veterans to access college education and suburban homeownership, expanding the middle class
The GI Bill provided veterans with college tuition, low-interest home loans, and job training, dramatically expanding the white middle class — while discriminatory implementation largely excluded Black veterans.
Question 4: The concept of 'intersectionality,' introduced by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, refers to:
- How overlapping social identities like race, gender, and class create compounded forms of discrimination (Correct answer)
- The point at which different social movements converge on shared goals
- The intersection of public and private spheres in women's lives
- The overlap between criminal justice and social welfare systems
Correct answer: How overlapping social identities like race, gender, and class create compounded forms of discrimination
Crenshaw's intersectionality framework argues that systems of oppression such as racism and sexism do not operate independently but interact to create distinct, compounded experiences of marginalization.
Question 5: The Indian Removal Act of 1830 led directly to:
- The forced relocation of tens of thousands of Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi River (Correct answer)
- The creation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
- The granting of citizenship to Native Americans
- The abolition of the reservation system
Correct answer: The forced relocation of tens of thousands of Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi River
The Indian Removal Act authorized the forced displacement of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole nations from the southeastern United States, most infamously in the Trail of Tears.
Question 6: The War on Poverty, launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, created which major social programs?
- Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and the Job Corps (Correct answer)
- Social Security, unemployment insurance, and TANF
- SNAP, housing vouchers, and Earned Income Tax Credit
- WIC, SSI, and the Children's Health Insurance Program
Correct answer: Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and the Job Corps
Johnson's War on Poverty created landmark programs including Medicare and Medicaid (health insurance for elderly and low-income Americans), Head Start (early childhood education), and the Job Corps (vocational training for youth).
BSocSc Bachelor of Social Science Social History 2
The Second Wave of feminism in the United States (1960s–1980s) primarily focused on: